No, really, your birth control is supposed to be free now

For National Women’s Health Week , we are highlighting women’s health issues in the United States. Let’s play an American history game: Where Were You when you realized that the Affordable Care Act really, actually meant that you wouldn’t have to pay a copay for your birth control? For me, it was a Walgreens on the north end of Seattle in February 2014, staring dumbfoundedly at a pharmacist who assured me that no, really, there was no charge for those pills. This was a very happy moment, but one that not all privately insured, contraception-using women have had yet — which is really not OK. So new White House regulations , just issued today, will firmly remind health insurers that, yes, they are required to provide birth control to women at no cost. Why is this reminder necessary? Vox reports: Two recent investigations — one by the Kaiser Family Foundation and another by t...